RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat flays government, calls for change

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RSS_MOHANNAGPUR: Painting a dismal picture of a government that has failed on every front—be it economy, securing country’s borders, policies that favour foreign powers instead of countrymen, commercializing of education — Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat in his Vijayadashami address called for change. A young generation driven by nationalistic fervour would bring about this change by ensuring that right candidates are elected in the coming elections, he said.

The Sarsanghachalak, in his annual address that draws national and international attention remarked: “The nation is faced with intricate and challenging problems. It is for us to wake up our latent strength and overcome these problems. In a democratic polity, when those responsible to ensure security and progress of the nation lack the necessary competence and even their very intentions are questionable, it becomes incumbent upon the samaj (society) to overcome the challenges,” he said.

Bhagwat himself answered the recurring question of the RSS talking politics: “When politics comes in the way of nation-building, it becomes our social duty to intervene,” he said justifying the increasing involvement of the RSS in the political process.

With 2014 parliamentary elections round the corner and when the Sangh is believed to be seriously backing Narendra Modi to be next prime minister, the RSS chief’s remarks assume greater importance.

“People are reeling under unending price rise. Just two years back, loud noises were being made about making our country an economic superpower. But today we are in search of means to arrest fall in the value of rupee so as to tide over the imminent economic crisis; i.e. fiscal deficit, current account deficit and depleting foreign exchange reserve. Stagnating economic growth, steep rise in foreign debt in comparison to Gross Domestic Product, etc, bear ample testimony to the fact that we are taking our economy in the wrong direction,” said Bhagwat.

“However, what is more surprising is the refusal of the government to change course and its continuation with its rigid policies. In the field of production, policies are formulated in such a way to deny the ownership to domestic entrepreneurs and entrust means of production to foreign hands. The number of people migrating from villages to cities in search of livelihood has increased and as a result a number of problems have cropped up in cities as well as villages. Whatsoever be the artificial glitter created by the so-called progress has not at all benefited the common people and the backward classes who are living in extreme difficulties,” the RSS chief said.

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